8am

wow i totally made it to an 8am class today. i'm way super-d-duperly proud of myself.

crazy dutch architects

MVRDV is one of the firms on our class list.  i like the project of theirs that i've dubbed the "jenga" building in taipei.

UN studio is another one on the list.  UN-fold-STUDIO is one of my favorite coffee table books.  marcel also suggested some readings from one of my favorite architectural journals: praxis.  

i feel ahead of the curve.  yeuh boy!  you gotta own it!

unmitagated audacity...

great googly moogly!



zappa for president!

studio before sept.: clean and stress free

soon there will hundreds of angry, sweaty, tired children in here:

better to see you with...

snapped this one in the optometrist's office.  this is my optomap.  i have healthy eyes if you were wondering...

omg you guys

dude...songsterr.com

if your a long-time internet guitar tab junkie like me...you'll appreciate the magnanimity of this site.  holy crap...

so there is an online jam room, but it's definitely lacking compared to what i had imagined an online jam room should be.  there should be a community of online musicians who can create "rooms" where they can play music live.  other people can then listen and/or play along.  the people who create these rooms should have the ability to choose whether or not to listen to people jammin with them.  talk about a billion dollar business idea.  amateurs could end up playin with super badasses and not even realize it.  that would be sooooo awesome...

just a taste...

the rest of the show is on its way...

i like to think i've sung this one better before, but it still had lots of energy.

lucy...you have some 'splainin to do...

aww......lulu can shake a paw

procrastination is...well...i'll you about it later...

i've learned a few things about procrastination recently...the hard way of course.  my glasses broke...twice.  the first time was the other night at sundowner.  my left "temple wire" just snapped when i tried to take them off for a second.  and then just yesterday the right one broke the same way.  i took them into pearl vision today and found out the 1-year warranty was in fact up.  it was almost as if the manufacturers specifically planned for them to destroy themselves just past the warranty's expiration.  hmm...  anyway, i have needed contacts for a while but have been putting it off until the last possible moment.  well...needless to say that moment came to me in a snap...literally.  so i conned the optometrist into giving me a free pair of loner contacts until i come in and renew my prescription.  new glasses come in next monday and i'm gonna stretch these contacts for 3 months and buy more online with the copy of my old prescription.  

the second part of the story has to do with h&r block and a bunch of money, but i won't bore you with the details.

so i guess what i'm really trying to say is :: i didn't really learn anything.  ha!

no but seriously, take it from me.  don't wait until you have been literally blinded before you decide it's time to take care of yourself.

colorado never ceases to amaze...

drove up past ward yesterday to brainard lake.  i'm totally going back there sometime.  it was absolutely gorgeous.

Christopher Pieper (aka...crispy tits)

it's hard to beat pitchers of pbrs @ the dwnr...mmm

jive coulis (feat. ronchron)

what an amazing feeling...

who better to capture such a moment than my better half...

the tenth

derek leaves for illinois today...sad day. my brother mickey just left for college yesterday. for some reason around this time every year, people in my life leave me.  ha!  maybe i'm just super aware around my birthday.  anyway look how cute:

we got back from the mountains today around 1:30.  i headed to twisted pine a couple of hours later to jam with the jive.  it was really fun!  i feel like we have the keller song nailed and the random improv seshes with pete were super sweet!  

we're opening the set with my keller song and then i might play with them on another track.  

wednesday night (8.13.08) @ the fox...yeuh

chipmunk heaven!

ok, so i've never so many friggin chipmunks in my life!

you just got killed by a daewoo lanos, mofo...

i snapped this one in the theatre last night @ the 9:35 showing of pineapple express. the iphone gives whole new meaning to the term "flash photography". ha!

holy crap james franco was an f'in riot. i was privy to some more of his work on "funny or die". it's so great to see A-listers making low-budget indy films and turning them around for 10s of thousands of dollars...not to mention the publicity. hilarious...

extreme cutover is here...

yay, my latest creation is live!  i made a website for martin-group's promo project called extreme cutover (parody of extreme makeover: home edition).    

tech meetup @ wolf law!!

chris and i got there a little late.  i thought the presentations started at 7 and they only started serving drinks at 6.  i was wrong.  next month we'll get there before all the beer runs out and get wicked awesome seats!  my favs:   gyminee & fluxcapacity.

eat healthy . . . drink beer

allison and i went with michael and ashley to keystone yesterday for the BEER and bluegrass festival.  even-though it was great to listen to, we weren't exactly there for the music...  with 30+ breweries handing out all kinds of great beer, the party was virtually unstoppable.  

friday night was awesome btw.  i finally got up in front of a crowd and played.  the keller cover went off without a hitch, which was my personal goal...but i had some equipment issues on jive's song "doomsday".  first of all, i didn't have any overdrive for my sound, so i played clean...meh.  the amp i was using kept cutting out right in the middle of the song, and i had to switch out my cable.  it totally killed my groove.  but it was a rad experience nonetheless and i'm grateful for jive lettin me sit in with them.  the live setting is completely different from rehearsal, anything can happen and sometimes there's no way to avoid mistakes.  

after the set we chilled around tPine and played a little nightbee in the parking lot.  we then proceeded to drum jam on the bus.  good times.  chris and i walked home...faded and talkative.  good night everyone.  

jive coulis @ the fox on the 13th